10 years ago today -

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/2003-Blackout-Anniversary-NYC-Northeast-Ohio-219618231.html


About 50 million people lost power 10 years ago on Aug. 14, 2003, when a tree branch in Ohio started an outage that cascaded across a broad swath from Michigan to New York City and Canada.

Commuters in New York City and elsewhere had to sleep on steps, hitchhike or walk home as trains were rendered powerless and gas pumps stopped working; food spoiled as refrigerators and freezers thawed; jugs of water sold out as supply plants lost their ability to supply consumers; minds were set to wandering about terrorism fears less than two years after 9/11.

[hrmjustin]

1. I remember it well. I walked from mid-town to southern Brooklyn.

[CrispyQ]

2. And there was talk about re-building the grid, bringing it into the 21st century.

Like so many things in this country, all talk, no walk.

[DesertFlower]

3. i remember one around '77. the super of my

building stayed up all night with a lantern helping people climb the stairs to their apartments. it was 7 floors. i was in queens, but my in-laws on LI had power. had to throw out so much spoiled food. of course, i also remember the one around '65 too.

[hrmjustin]

4. I remember ten years ago it took me a week to find Milk that was not bad.

[DesertFlower]

5. i was in phoenix 10 years ago.

[hrmjustin]

6. You had power then. LOL.